The Dark Mother Laughs

Working with the Dark Mother has taught me a thing or two about expectations, comfort levels and senses of satisfaction.

You can think you know what you are doing. You can think you have it figured out and that you have charted a course. You can think She is done with you or that She is satisfied with what you think you have done for Her.

You are wrong. And as you stumble, lost in the blackness of the forest, She will laugh.

Dis-solution is the solution, and it is Her specialty. It all comes apart before it comes together again.

13 Baba Yagas is the chronicle of my own personal spiritual journey told through art and the world of fairy tales. What began as a single project for an art challenge, based on the mythic Russian character of Baba Yaga, has turned into a year long project. Each month I aim to present a different interpretation of the fairy tale witch in whatever medium comes to me as appropriate. I will also share other art projects along the way as they evolve.